Kingdom Animalia Clade Dinosauria Phylum Chordata Order Ornithischia | Class Reptilia Suborder †Ornithopoda Rank Species | |
Genus †Osmakasaurus
McDonald, 2011 Similar Uteodon, Planicoxa, Ahshislepelta, Theiophytalia, Barilium | ||
Osmakasaurus is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the lower Cretaceous period (Valanginian age) in what is now Buffalo Gap of South Dakota, United States. It is known from the Chilson Member of the Lakota Formation. This genus was named by Andrew T. McDonald in 2011 and the type species is Osmakasaurus depressus. O. depressus was previously referred to as Camptosaurus depressus, and was first described in 1909 by Charles W. Gilmore.
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